...Dedicated to the preservation of Indigenous Cultures.

It has been said that it is our Ancestors dreaming that has brought us each to this day. It is said that it is like a giant Dream Web that is spread above our Earth Mother, and that these final days as we get closer to the centre of the web, and it gets tighter and tighter, harder and harder when we are getting closer to weaving ourselves to the opening (centre) where all the dreams that the Ancestors held for all their children will begin to become a reality. As we fall through the centre these dreams will become a reality upon the Earth... Our Mother for the Children of All Nations.  

Prayer to the Ancestors

'We won’t be going on alone.

For I have met with my Ancestors.

And I will call back into the past....

Far back into the beginning of time...

And beg them to come and help me...

I will reach back and draw them into me...

And they must come...For at this moment...

         I am the whole reason that they have existed at all...'
 

North Sagado Elder

Jinta Jungu

All Peoples come from culture

In the beginnings we were one people

In the beginning all cultures on our Earth Mother 

shared the same original instructions

We were the caretakers of all of Creation

And were instructed to live in balance with all our relations

We knew at this time our belonging, our tribes, our clans our lands

Our waters were clear, our air was clean, our foods were plentiful

Around our Earth Mother today

In full view of all of us

Is what we have created by walking away from our original cultures

We find ourselves again at a crossroad

The reality of what we are about to allow

Our children and grandchildren to inherit

Is one over which all our Ancestors weep !

We have raped the Earth and her resources and caused great imbalance

To the point where the seasons themselves are shifting

And the seeds are unable to grow

To where the Earth is unable to provide for our children

Where do we begin to describe & acknowledge this damage

We have created here in our environment-our environment that sustains all life

The Earth is our Mother-There is No Other

This we All Originally Knew

And must Remember now Again

The world is starved of culture

Children no longer know where they belong

Or who their Ancestors were

We have desensitised, and dehumananised them

To the point where they have lost their feelings for the Earth  they walk upon

We have filled their minds with facts and figures

To where they are separated from the earth and their feelings

We find them with an emptiness- with feelings of hopelessness
 

Culture is to cultivate, to honour as Sacred

As All Life Is Sacred

As the Earth is Sacred

They say that if we listen now...

That the voices of our Grandmothers & Grandfathers

Can be heard crying on the winds

And that they are calling the People of All Nations

To Awaken-to listen, to hear, to speak and to begin to live again.

Culture lives in our languages

It brings songs to our voices

From the songs come our dances

From our Dances come our stories, our paintings, our arts of life

These form our ceremonies that define our cultures

They are the rivers of life that form our unity...our relationship

Showing us that our ways of life cannot be separated from our cultures

Culture lives in all our lives at all times

For we are the Blood & Bones of our own Ancestors

We carry within the genetic and biological coding

which is the trigger for our Ancient memory

Of where we have come from and who we are... and why we are here

The memory of all we have within to share

Through Visions and great Dreams

We remember all that we have come to be

And all the gifts we carry within

Four Winds Foundation and its associated Global Networks

of Indigenous communities worldwide

are here to share from many Indigenous points of view

how we together as one (Jinta Jungu) can walk shoulder to shoulder

to sustain ourselves culturally, environmentally, economically

as was and has been possible for 40 million years

For we have now grasped the knowledge

of how we choose not to Be...

and recognize the knowledge that our cultural teachings have held since the Beginning

They hold the very foundation stones for the creation of all Healthy Civilizations

Today for the first time...we can choose together to share our cultural inheritances

For the time is Now, Now, Now.